Friday, March 8, 2013

Winter Wonderland

With all of the snow we had earlier this week, everything looks fresh and new. The trees are heavily covered with snow and it really is a Winter Wonderland. 

Soooo.......
I thought it would be a good time to show my Winter Wonderland quilt
since it is pretty much still winter here. I think I made this quilt in 2005 or 2006. 

The pattern was designed for Redwork, but I had to do it in blue naturally!

It's difficult to make out in the photos,
but I used tiny cobalt blue crystals in place of the French Knots in the snowflakes.
When I quilted it using white thread, I went over the embroidery. Later, I was a little unhappy with how that looked,
so I  used a blue Pigma pen to color the white thread every where it crossed over the blue embroidery. 

In the white areas, I quilted in some snowflakes using iridescent thread. 
embroidered-quilt-pattern-winter-wonderland
You can find the pattern here: Crabapple Hill Studio

5 comments:

  1. Love that little quilt! Very smart thinking on the quilting coloring!! I really like it in the blue better than the red--so Wintry. Have a great weekend...hugs, Julierose

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  2. I like it done in blue. I have the pattern but have not done one thing towards stitching on it.

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  3. A girl after my own heart. I love the blue.

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  4. WOW ... what a beautiful quilt !

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  5. I love this quilt and have always wanted to make it.
    It just makes me smile. I love the winter and snow but this year I am just over storms of any kind so looking forward to spring.
    our snow melted finally with the warm weekend we had
    Kathie

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